Board Thread:Classic DMC/@comment-2001:8003:102F:9500:1066:15B2:B1CC:F1BC-20170917120147/@comment-6769189-20170919011700

There are a few things I think you were off on. Dante doesn't drink a whole lot. In Novel 1 I dont believe it said he drank a lot or got particularly wasted frequently. Being half demon he has a higher tolerence and Bobbys was a common place for mercenaries.

I think his reason for having few friends is because he knows its dangerous to be around him. He does know how to form friendships as in the games and the novels he has a few close friends. He knows its just better to keep normal people generally away from himself. Basically its not that he doesnt know how to make friends, he generally doesnt want to.

As for Vergil. He knows restraint and actually doesnt kill unnecissarily. In the manga the woman he kills was actually a demon traveling with Arkham. Usually when someone knows that the legend of Sparda is real, they are out to attack him. They recieved their warnings. He also doesn't kill Alice on multiple occasions, one of which being a screw up. The other time he kind of teaches her a lesson when he tore up her stuffed bunny. Rather than kill her for being the embodiment of weakness (which has an utter disdain for), he tried to help her grow. This implies almost a brother-sister relationship.

Vergil actually cares for Dante. He tries to get Dante to join him and had 3-4 chances to kill him atop Temi Ni Gru. At the end of 3 he even describes their opposing goals as unfortunate. At the end of 3 he also encourages Dante to leave before the portal closes. He even throws himself off a waterfall to ensure Dante wouldnt get himself stuck in Hell trying to drag him back.

Vergil lives by strength and only kills those who attack him and are too weak to survive the encounter.